Faculty

Bharadwaj Amrutur (Chairman)

Professor, Chairman, Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems (RBC-CPS) from the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering (ECE) 

Research interests: IoT systems, Robotic Systems and Connected Autonomous Vehicles

Email: chair.cps (at) iisc.ac.in, amrutur (at) iisc.ac.in

Pushpak Jagtap

Assistant Professor, Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems (RBC-CPS)

Research interests: Control theory, Control and analysis of cyber-physical systems, Formal methods for control of autonomous systems, Embedded control systems, Learning for control, Nonlinear systems, Stochastic systems, Multi-agent systems

Email: pushpak (at) iisc.ac.in

Punit Rathore

Assistant Professor, Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems (RBC-CPS), jointly with Centre for Infrastructure, Intelligent Transportation, and Urban Planning (CiSTUP)

Research interests: Big Data Analytics, Unsupervised Learning, Streaming Data Analysis, Spatio-temporal data mining,  Data-Driven Analytics for Autonomous Systems, Internet of Things, Urban Sensing and Analytics, Explainable algorithms for Socio-Technical Systems like urban transportation, healthcare, smart city, etc.

Email: prathore@iisc.ac.in

Shishir N. Y. Kolathaya

Shishir Kolathaya, Assistant Professor, Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems (RBC-CPS) (jointly with the Department of Computer Science and Automation (CSA))

Research interests: Hybrid robotic systems, safety critical control and applications of learning theory to legged locomotion.

Email: shishirk (at) iisc.ac.in

Vaibhav Katewa

Vaibhav Katewa, Assistant Professor, Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems (RBC-CPS) (jointly with the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering (ECE))

Research interests: Security and privacy for cyber-physical systems, Decentralized and sparse feedback control, Distributed detection, Estimation and control, Networked control systems.

Email: vkatewa (at) iisc.ac.in

Debasish Ghose

Professor, Associate Faculty from Aerospace Engineering (AE)

Research interests: Guidance and control of autonomous vehicles

Email: dghose (at) iisc.ac.in

Suresh Sundaram

Associate Professor, Associate Faculty from Aerospace Engineering (AE)

Research interests: Intelligent flight control system, Autonomous System, Applied Game Theory, Computer Vision and Robotics, Machine learning and AI

Email: sureshsundaram (at) iisc.ac.in

Shalabh Bhatnagar

Professor, Associate Faculty from Computer Science & Automation (CSA)

Research interests:

stochastic approximation algorithms, stochastic control, reinforcement learning, simulation optimization, vehicular traffic control, autonomous systems, communication/wireless networks, smart grids

Email: shalabh(at) iisc.ac.in

Chiranjib Bhattacharyya

Professor, Associate Faculty from Department of Computer Science and Automation (CSA)

Research interests: Machine learning, Convex optimization, and Bioinformatics

Email: chiru (at) iisc.ac.in

Pradipta Biswas

Assistant Professor, Associate Faculty from Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing (CPDM)

Research interests: Human Computer Interaction, User Modelling, Multimodal Interaction, Intelligent Interaction

Email: pradipta (at) iisc.ac.in

Deepak D’Souza

Professor, Associate Faculty from Department of Computer Science and Automation (CSA)

Research interests: Automated verification

Email: deepakd (at) iisc.ac.in

Vinod Ganapathy

Associate Professor, Associate Faculty from Department of Computer Science and Automation (CSA)

Research interests: Computer systems security

Email: vg (at) iisc.ac.in

Ashitava Ghosal

Professor, Associate Faculty from Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME)

Research interests: Kinematics, dynamics, control and design of robots and other computer controlled mechanical systems, Theoretical and numerical investigations of non-linear dynamical systems, and Kinematics of parallel mechanisms and manipulators

Email: asitava (at) iisc.ac.in

Aditya Gopalan

Assistant Professor, Associate Faculty from Department of Electrical Communication Engineering (ECE)

Research interests: Machine learning and statistical inference, Control, and Performance modeling and analysis of complex systems

Email: aditya (at) iisc.ac.in

Gurunath Gurrala

Assistant Professor, Associate Faculty from Department of Electrical Engineering (EE)

Research interests: High performance computing applications in power systems analysis and control, Nonlinear and intelligent control applications in power systems, Weak grid integration of renewables, Microgrid protection and control, and Smart grid control and stability

Email: gurunath (at) iisc.ac.in

Radhakant Padhi

Professor, Associate Faculty from Department of Aerospace Engineering (AE)

Research interests: Nonlinear, optimal, adaptive and intelligent control, State estimation, Guidance and control of aerospace vehicles, Integrated estimation, guidance and control, Control of distributed parameter systems, and Biomedical applications of control systems

Email: padhi (at) iisc.ac.in

T V Prabhakar

Principal Research Scientist, Associate Faculty from Department of Electronic Systems Engineering (DESE)

Research interests: Networked embedded systems, IoT security, Heterogeneous networks for IoT, and Tactile internet applications

Email: tvprabs (at) iisc.ac.in

Ashwini Ratnoo

Associate Professor, Associate Faculty from Department of Aerospace Engineering (AE)

Research interests: Guidance and control of autonomous vehicles, Path planning and following, Aerial robotics

Email: ratnoo (at) iisc.ac.in

Josephine Selvarani Ruth D

Inspire Faculty, Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber Physical Systems (RBCCPS)

Research interests: Design of smart sensors and actuators, control systems, smart material-based HMI systems, and ADAS.

Email: rjosephine (at) iisc.ac.in

Yogesh Simmhan

Assistant Professor, Associate Faculty from Department of Computational and Data Sciences (CDS)

Research interests: Abstractions, algorithms and applications on distributed data and computing systems, Cloud computing, Big Data platforms for graphs and streams, Middleware for IoT, and Distributed data and metadata management

Email: simmhan (at) iisc.ac.in

Rajesh Sundaresan

Professor, Associate Faculty from Department of Electrical Communication Engineering (ECE)

Research interests: Communication, computation, and control over networks, Decentralised algorithms over graphs and networks, Network analytics, and Information geometry

Email: rajeshs (at) iisc.ac.in

Pavankumar Tallapragada

Assistant Professor, Associate Faculty from Department of Electrical Engineering (EE)

Research interests: Networked control systems, distributed systems and control, multi-agent systems, dynamics of social systems.

Email: pavant (at) iisc.ac.in

Himanshu Tyagi

Assistant Professor, Associate Faculty from Department of Electrical Communication Engineering (ECE)

Research interests: Information theory, information constrained machine learning and statistics, information theoretic cryptography, networked intelligent systems

Email: htyagi (at) iisc.ac.in

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